Real managers

The removal of levels of middle management means that there are now fewer people in organizations with the title of manager who do little real managing. Opportunities for any member of staff to remain as a back-room person are decreasing. 

Having no real management training or experience, Ted recognized the need to learn more about the purpose of strategic planning and the process that will be required to develop the departmental strategic plan. 

Behavior-based safety systems that are real management systems do not turn safety over to any one level of the organization. It is great to get worker involvement—in fact, it is crucial. But to eliminate and isolate management from the process is dangerous to both sides. Management has the legal accountability for safety. (2001, p. 

Quality in Japan. Japanese economic prowess has been attributed variously to such quahty improvement activities as quahty circles, statistical process control (SPG), just-in-time dehvery (JIT), and zero defects (ZD). However, the real key to success hes in the apphcation of numerous quahty improvement tools as part of a management philosophy called Kaizen, which means continuous improvement (10). 

Elliott has also developed the Laser Sentry System, whieh is a monitoring deviee used in FCC applieations. The system deteets solid partieles entrained in gas streams on a eontinuous and real-time basis. It is a good example of a deviee that ean be easily integrated into the EDS to provide enhaneed data management. 

In plant health terms, monitoring and measurement both eost money and are only half way to the real objeetive, whieh is the avoidanee of eost and plant damage. Condition management makes proper use of both aetivities and exploits information derived from them to generate money for the plant operator. Good plant eondition management, therefore, should be the objeetive of materials and maehine health speeialists. 

Step 1.1 Getting Ready. A thorough preparation for a P2 audit is a prerequisite for an efficient and cost-effective evaluation. Gaining support for the assessment from top-level management, and for the implementation of results, is particularly important. Otherwise, there will be no real action on recommendations. Early in the process, management needs to accept that, at a bare minimum, the audit is a worthwhile exercise and that resources - human and financial - should be diverted from other activities to the task of auditing. 

Department of Energy Offiee of Environment Safety and Elealth Offiee of Environmental Management, Handbook for Occupational Health and Safety During Hazardous Waste Activities. The text from the publie domain doeuments has been eondensed and has been eoupled with real-life examples that will help to make this book a user-friendly referenee. 

Accident defenses may be regarded as a series of barriers (engineered safety systems, safety procedures, emergency training, etc.). As barriers fail, incipient failures become real. Inappropriate management policies create inadequate PIFs, which give rise to opportunities foi ermr when initiated by local triggers or unusual conditions. 

Policies provide freedom to individuals in the execution of their duties to make decisions within defined boundaries and avoid over-control by managers. If people are uncertain about where the limits of their job lie they cannot feel free to act. Without a clearly defined area of freedom there is no real freedom at all. 

As discussed earlier in this chapter, the main requirements to ensure an appropriate safety culture are similar to those which are advocated in quality management systems. These include active participation by the workforce in error and safety management initiatives, a blame-free culture which fosters the free flow of information, and an explicit policy which ensures that safety considerations will always be primary. In addition both operations and management staff need feedback which indicates that participation in error reduction programs has a real impact on the way in which the plant is operated and systems are designed. 

The change management process should also ensure that a root cause analysis has been conducted to make sure the real problem has been identified and corrected. For example, if a pump seal fails it could simply be replaced with an identical seal. However, it may have failed because it was left in service beyond its natural life and the real failure was in the preventative maintenance program that should have replaced it earlier. 

Real-time access to the data base is possible through a data base management system. In addition to safety-related system data, data for interfacing (auxiliary) system components are also available. The data base management system provides in-depth flexibility for generation of specific output reports. Although access has been limited to members of the Swedish Utility Consortium and the Swedish Power Board Directorate, a Reliability Data Book is available with generic failure rates based primarily on this data base. 

The Failure and Inventory Reporting System (FIRS) program was developed by the Geological Survey Division of the U.S. Department of the Interior for safety and pollution prevention devices on offshore structures that produce or process hydrocarbons. The program collected data on mechanical and some electromechanical systems on offshore oil platforms. About 8,000 failure events were documented. Access has been limited to internal materials management system use. No real-time access or periodic output products have been available. 

Cadle, S. H. Gorse, R. A. and Lawson, D. R. (1993). Real-World Vehicle Emissions A Summaiy ot the Third Annual CRC-APRAC On-Road Vehicle Emissions Workshop. Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association 43(S) 1084—1090. 

More than 25 years ago, Edgar S. Weaver, then manager of Real Estate and Construction Operations for General Electric, provided a succinct description of the function ... 

In studies of the behaviour of materials that may be either active or passive in the test environment, there would seem to be a real advantage in starting with specimens in an activated state to see if they will become passive, and to ascertain how fast they are corroded if they remain active. If passivity should be achieved after such an activated start, the material can be considered to be more reliable in the test environment than would be the case if by chance it managed to retain an originally induced passivity for all, or most of, the test period. It may also be valuable to know how fast the metal will be corroded by the test medium if activity should persist. 

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